Boarding Area's Fall
Sep 12, 2022, 5:40 am
#1246
Join Date: May 2002
Location: STL
Programs: DL PM/1MM, DL SkClub LT, Marr LT Plat, IHG Plat, HH Diam
Posts: 2,000
Sep 12, 2022, 6:18 am
#1247
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Programs: Airline Free Agent, Fairmont Lifetime Platinum, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Honors Diamond
Posts: 3,041
Wow...just wow....could this site get any lower? Also, I never found this Take off nap funny....AT ALL! To do this post to try to get clicks from 911 is beyond awful!
Sep 12, 2022, 8:31 am
#1248
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: CLE
Programs: UA GS+LT UC, AA EXP+LT PLT, Fairmont LT PLT, Marriott PLT, Hilton DIA, Hyatt Glob, Avis CHM
Posts: 4,670
Cached version:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=us
https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=us
Sep 26, 2022, 10:22 am
#1251
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 3,566
Anyone able to use the filter listed above and get it to work on the C Boarding Group blog? Tried exact same syntax but it doesn't seem to work on that one... wonder if I'm typing or formatting something wrong.
Edit: ahhhhh finally got it to work. So happy... bye bye takeoff nap, c boarding group and paddle your own kanoo. Right down the toilet where they belong. The post detailing how to do this is the FT POTY for me.
Edit: ahhhhh finally got it to work. So happy... bye bye takeoff nap, c boarding group and paddle your own kanoo. Right down the toilet where they belong. The post detailing how to do this is the FT POTY for me.
Last edited by antonius66; Oct 1, 2022 at 10:23 am
Oct 14, 2022, 4:28 am
#1252
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
Thoughts on the BA redesign?
On the upside, the Google+ follow link has gone :-)
The rest of it gives the impression that they used the person who 'redesigned' OMAAT. Total chaos. Worse on mobile because the images are huge - on an iPhone mini you literally get just one headline in your screen view at once. It looks like the sort of thing that you get from your designer as a first draft when they throw in lots of different ideas to show you what is possible.
The ability to filter by country is pointless. A German blog is happy to write about flight deals from the UK, but block German blogs and you'd miss those. I would have done it just by continent, if at all - even then, a European just selecting European blogs would miss relevant hotel content on US sites.
The only upside is the ability to cherry pick the exact blogs you want to see, although I'm sure about half of the list haven't posted for months. I would do this rather than restricting by geography.
There is a good redesign in there, fighting to get out, but it is losing the battle at the moment.
On the upside, the Google+ follow link has gone :-)
The rest of it gives the impression that they used the person who 'redesigned' OMAAT. Total chaos. Worse on mobile because the images are huge - on an iPhone mini you literally get just one headline in your screen view at once. It looks like the sort of thing that you get from your designer as a first draft when they throw in lots of different ideas to show you what is possible.
The ability to filter by country is pointless. A German blog is happy to write about flight deals from the UK, but block German blogs and you'd miss those. I would have done it just by continent, if at all - even then, a European just selecting European blogs would miss relevant hotel content on US sites.
The only upside is the ability to cherry pick the exact blogs you want to see, although I'm sure about half of the list haven't posted for months. I would do this rather than restricting by geography.
There is a good redesign in there, fighting to get out, but it is losing the battle at the moment.
Oct 14, 2022, 6:01 am
#1253
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: AMS+IAH
Programs: Lufthansa: Senator || IHG: Diamond Royal Ambassador Inner Circle || Plutonium Status
Posts: 3,493
Hmmm,
i am missing a search function....
you know :
the magnifying glass where you type in a topic and it would search al BA blogs for the posts containing that topic...
....
...
...
oh wait ...
..
that would reveal that most content is echoed by every subsuquent BA- blogger anyway
or
reveal a dedicated ghostwriter team pumping out content and just tarts it up with a different sauce masking it as exclusive content
i am missing a search function....
you know :
the magnifying glass where you type in a topic and it would search al BA blogs for the posts containing that topic...
....
...
...
oh wait ...
..
that would reveal that most content is echoed by every subsuquent BA- blogger anyway
or
reveal a dedicated ghostwriter team pumping out content and just tarts it up with a different sauce masking it as exclusive content
Oct 14, 2022, 12:03 pm
#1254
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2013
Programs: DL PM, MR Titanium/LTP, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 10,130
Can't stand the redesign. At least with the old design, it was easy to quickly scroll through the new posts and see (a) topic (b) who wrote it, so you could decide if it was something worth reading.
Now it is way too busy and there also isn't enough definition between the different sections to quickly scan and see all the new posts. They "raised squares" worked because visually they were isolated now it looks like one big mess
Now it is way too busy and there also isn't enough definition between the different sections to quickly scan and see all the new posts. They "raised squares" worked because visually they were isolated now it looks like one big mess
Oct 14, 2022, 4:03 pm
#1255
formerly rt23456p
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 1,210
Thoughts on the BA redesign?
On the upside, the Google+ follow link has gone :-)
The rest of it gives the impression that they used the person who 'redesigned' OMAAT. Total chaos. Worse on mobile because the images are huge - on an iPhone mini you literally get just one headline in your screen view at once. It looks like the sort of thing that you get from your designer as a first draft when they throw in lots of different ideas to show you what is possible.
The ability to filter by country is pointless. A German blog is happy to write about flight deals from the UK, but block German blogs and you'd miss those. I would have done it just by continent, if at all - even then, a European just selecting European blogs would miss relevant hotel content on US sites.
The only upside is the ability to cherry pick the exact blogs you want to see, although I'm sure about half of the list haven't posted for months. I would do this rather than restricting by geography.
There is a good redesign in there, fighting to get out, but it is losing the battle at the moment.
On the upside, the Google+ follow link has gone :-)
The rest of it gives the impression that they used the person who 'redesigned' OMAAT. Total chaos. Worse on mobile because the images are huge - on an iPhone mini you literally get just one headline in your screen view at once. It looks like the sort of thing that you get from your designer as a first draft when they throw in lots of different ideas to show you what is possible.
The ability to filter by country is pointless. A German blog is happy to write about flight deals from the UK, but block German blogs and you'd miss those. I would have done it just by continent, if at all - even then, a European just selecting European blogs would miss relevant hotel content on US sites.
The only upside is the ability to cherry pick the exact blogs you want to see, although I'm sure about half of the list haven't posted for months. I would do this rather than restricting by geography.
There is a good redesign in there, fighting to get out, but it is losing the battle at the moment.
Oct 25, 2022, 11:35 pm
#1256
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
Despite what I wrote a couple of posts up, I have now lost patience with the new Boarding Area homepage. It's just ludicrous. Ads at the top, ads at the bottom, a pop-up video ad AND huge ads amongst the articles, plus such a ludicrous number of different sizes for the article blocks that your brain can't keep track.
I just don't understand what sentient human being at BA could have looked at this and signed it off as acceptable.
I just don't understand what sentient human being at BA could have looked at this and signed it off as acceptable.
Last edited by Raffles; Oct 25, 2022 at 11:44 pm
Oct 26, 2022, 5:30 am
#1257
Join Date: May 2002
Location: STL
Programs: DL PM/1MM, DL SkClub LT, Marr LT Plat, IHG Plat, HH Diam
Posts: 2,000
Despite what I wrote a couple of posts up, I have now lost patience with the new Boarding Area homepage. It's just ludicrous. Ads at the top, ads at the bottom, a pop-up video ad AND huge ads amongst the articles, plus such a ludicrous number of different sizes for the article blocks that your brain can't keep track.
I just don't understand what sentient human being at BA could have looked at this and signed it off as acceptable.
I just don't understand what sentient human being at BA could have looked at this and signed it off as acceptable.
Oct 26, 2022, 6:24 am
#1258
Moderator: Lufthansa Miles & More, India based airlines, India, External Miles & Points Resources
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: MUC
Programs: LH SEN
Posts: 48,132
Oct 26, 2022, 1:25 pm
#1259
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
Except you don’t.
We cut our ad units in our redesign 2 years and recently stopped all Adsense. We now sell 100% of our ad space direct to people who will pay premium rates because their ad will stand out.
We cut our ad units in our redesign 2 years and recently stopped all Adsense. We now sell 100% of our ad space direct to people who will pay premium rates because their ad will stand out.
Oct 27, 2022, 4:24 am
#1260
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Programs: Airline Free Agent, Fairmont Lifetime Platinum, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Honors Diamond
Posts: 3,041
What I find just awful at BA is that even bloggers who tried in the past to provide useful content responsibly are turning to purely pump posts (understandable to a degree) AND just clickbait drivel. I guess BA is cornering the morons who keep clicking...Extends to the big societal issues in the US and the world, sad!